BBC Top 100 British Novels

The Code of the Woosters (PG Wodehouse, 1938)
There but for the (Ali Smith, 2011)
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry,1947)
The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis, 1949-1954)
Memoirs of a Survivor (Doris Lessing, 1974)
The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi, 1990)
The Memoirs and Confessions of a Sinner (James Hogg, 1824)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding, 1954)
Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons, 1932)
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy, 1922)
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins, 1859)
The Horse’s Mouth (Joyce Cary, 1944)
The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen, 1938)
The Old Wives’ Tale (Arnold Bennett,1908)
A Legacy (Sybille Bedford, 1956)
Regeneration Trilogy (Pat Barker, 1991-1995)
Scoop (Evelyn Waugh, 1938)
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope, 1857)
The Patrick Melrose Novels (Edward St Aubyn, 1992-2012)
The Jewel in the Crown (Paul Scott, 1966)
Excellent Women (Barbara Pym, 1952)
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman, 1995-2000)
A House for Mr Biswas (VS Naipaul, 1961)
Of Human Bondage (W Somerset Maugham, 1915)
Small Island (Andrea Levy, 2004)
Women in Love (DH Lawrence, 1920)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy, 1886)
The Blue Flower (Penelope Fitzgerald, 1995)
The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene, 1948)
Old Filth (Jane Gardam, 2004)
Daniel Deronda (George Eliot, 1876)
Nostromo (Joseph Conrad, 1904)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess, 1962)
Crash (JG  Ballard 1973)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811)
Orlando (Virginia Woolf, 1928)
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope, 1875)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark, 1961)
Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945)
The Sea, The Sea (Iris Murdoch, 1978)
Sons and Lovers (DH Lawrence, 1913)
The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst, 2004)
Loving (Henry Green, 1945)
Parade’s End (Ford Madox Ford, 1924-1928)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson, 1985)
Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726)
NW (Zadie Smith, 2012)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys, 1966)
New Grub Street (George Gissing, 1891)
Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)
A Passage to India (EM Forster, 1924)
Possession (AS Byatt, 1990)
Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis, 1954)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne, 1759)
Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie, 1981)
The Little Stranger  (Sarah Waters, 2009)
Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel, 2009)
The Swimming Pool Library (Alan Hollinghurst, 1988)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)
Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens, 1848)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes, 2011)
The Passion (Jeanette Winterson, 1987)
Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh, 1928)
A Dance to the Music of Time (Anthony Powell, 1951-1975)
Remainder (Tom McCarthy, 2005)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005)
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908)
A Room with a View (EM Forster, 1908)
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene, 1951)
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe, 1722)
Brick Lane (Monica Ali, 2003)
Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, 1719)
The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien, 1954)
White Teeth (Zadie Smith, 2000)
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing, 1962)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding, 1749)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899)
Persuasion (Jane Austen, 1817)
Emma (Jane Austen, 1815)
Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989)
Howards End (EM Forster, 1910)
The Waves (Virginia Woolf, 1931)
Atonement (Ian McEwan, 2001)
Clarissa (Samuel Richardson,1748)
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford, 1915)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens, 1850)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens, 1853)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë, 1847)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf, 1927)
Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1874)

Telegraph Top 100 Books

 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
One Thousand and One Nights Anon
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Germinal by Emile Zola
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Crash by JG Ballard
A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
London Fields by Martin Amis
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Austerlitz by WG Sebald
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Rabbit books by John Updike
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Ulysses by James Joyce
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A Passage to India by EM Forster
1984 by George Orwell
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Middlemarch by George Eliot